reddit.com Archives - 01 February 2013, Friday

I think for some people it's somewhat like watching a movie. They aren't doing it for a profit, they are doing it for the random thrill of it. If I start winning in poker, I just make more outrageous plays until I've lost the amount of money I was looking to spend. Games of pure chanc...

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WalletBit now offers 42 currency options, enabling bank deposits in over 50 countries..This means the advantages of Bitcoin can be enjoyed by more than half the world's population. Many countries added in this latest expansion have never been able to sell their Bitcoins for local curr...

I was really excited to find this morning that I had been accepted into the May class of http://www.appacademy.io/ ! But I thought I would see if any Redditors had experience with these bootcamp courses, and the job market coming out of them? I'm from Australia, so will have to pay th...

It has not been profitable yet. I build machines out of habit, but normally stick with nVidia. I started switching over to AMD cards to play with bitcoin mining. Long story short, have spent roughly $3000 in hardware, electric bill about $200 higher per month for August/Sept/Oct and $...

It's super inconvenient and primitive. You fill out some forms on BitInstant that basically gives them the info to prepare to look out for your transfer. Can be done @CVS, CHase, a few others. Then you have to go to CVS and there's some goofy phone you use and more forms to fill out t...

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So yesterday I got drunk and started talking about bitcoin. A lot of people were sceptic but and the end of the evening they were convinced. In my drunkiness I promised the bartender I would come by later and install him all the tools for accepting bitcoins. I am located in Brussels, ...

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency. It is an open source project under active development. How to buy bitcoins More info @ bitcoin.org and bitcoin.it : Getting Started FAQ Common Myths Bitcoin Merchants Community rules Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the rea...

Stop the new Internet Surveillance Law: There are rumors that the Obama Administration will propose a far-reaching new Internet surveillance law, dramatically expanding the the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which forces forcing telephone companies to build ...

We're a small, mom-and-pop file hosting enterprise with an intent to be as user-friendly, open-source and transparent as a cryptographically enhanced file hosting service can be. We intend to be a file hosting service. A nice one. mega.co.nz is an endeavor that starts in the millions ...

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I'm trying to popularize a very simple, fair odds, 100% break even P2P game. I don't really see the point betting at SD, Bitbattle or other house-edge games if we can have P2P backed gambling. If we can have a P2P currency, why not P2P fair gambling? Here's how the game works. This is...

So SatoshiDice has the chance of winning along with the payout multiplier if you win. I am playing a 36% chance to win 2.67x payout and haven't won 10 times in a row. According to my math, this has almost a 99% chance of not happening. Today this happened and a 9 lose streak happened ...

the economics are that as more people mine, the mining gets harder, which causes less people to mine. it creates a stable rate of bitcoin generation, which keeps bitcoins at a certain exchange rate. look at it this way, if i made 10 bitcoins, and 10 only, each one would be incredibly ...

At this point, there are a lot of ways and places to learn (including reddit): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page https://bitcointalk.org/ Are you wedded to mining specifically? Currently the world is waiting for ASIC technology to start shipping, in which case the current low-cost ...

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Information on the benefits of bitcoin travels fast and freely. Real vulnerability of the underlying protocol are yet to be seen and even growth issues don't yet pose any significant road blocks to the general upward trend. Not many people even give any fuck to news of services like e...

The main way a majority of people look to get something out of their Bitcoin "investment" is by future investors. This is many people's motivation for getting new Bitcoin adopters. You see people on here all the time saying that you should buy Bitcoin because one day each Bitcoin coul...

Bitcoin exchanges are such good targets that using Rails is just flatly unacceptable. There are what, 3-4 server side Rails exploits per year now? If you run the front of estore or something, that's okay, because your site is not enough of a target that it will be exploited. However, ...

Time zones in Rails can be a little confusing because they add support by modifying existing Ruby core/stdlib classes. Ruby has no time zone support but Rails actually does a good job. The key is to always use Time.zone rather than Time and to be aware of the difference between things...

No, what you need is a descriptive language that gives designers what they want and then hook everything up by calling some stored procedures in a database. CRUD problem solved. :-) Or, maybe what you really need is a tight server code that then is hooked up by a dynamic front-end tha...

An attacker can execute any ruby code he wants including system("unix command"). This effects any rails version for the last 6 years. I've written POCs for Rails 3.x and Rails 2.x on Ruby 1.9.3, Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby 1.8.7 and there is no reason to believe this wouldn't work on any Ruby...

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I bought lunch for a friend and she agreed to repay in Bitcoins. She has a PhD in Genetic Engineering so she is smart and busy. She doesn't have time for tedious geeky stuff. She wrote: I am working on getting the $100 in bitcoins. But it would cost $121.45. I was going to use it as a...

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I really like Shoes since it's easy to work with and have made a little app I want to try packaging but un fortunatly it crashes every time. Has anyone gotten around this problem or have any alternative suggestions?

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Not tryin to get anything, not tryin to sell anything, just wanna give out some free bitcoins to a few lucky people, spread the holiday cheer around a little, was lucky enough to get a tip on here once, got me started in all this, so trying to pay it back a little. Not much but here y...